Mental Health Programme In Primary Health Clinics

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is studying the implementation of mental health programmes in primary health clinics across the country, an official has told Khaleej Times.
According to Dr Muna Al Kuwari, Director of Central Primary Health in the MoH, primary health services in the country will be expanded to include mental health services to both [...]

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Sunnyside’s Garza Wrestler of the Year

Garza’s comment: “I wanted to finish my career by winning a state title on the TV mat (aired by Cox 7). And that’s what happened, so it was a great ending. The one thing that bothered me all season was that my twin brother (John, who had a torn labrum) wasn’t able to wrestle this [...]

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Children benefit from JamaicaCuba eye care programme

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): A total of 200 Jamaican children have to date benefited from surgeries under the Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme. %26quot;Some children as young as six months have gone to Cuba for surgeries,%26quot; said Liaison Officer for the programme based in Cuba, Delita McCallum. She said, however, that she would like to see more [...]

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Lo Duca’s sorry for ‘mistakes’

The report came out in December, two days after the Nationals announced they signed Lo Duca to a $5 million, one-year contract.
One of the main sources of the report, admitted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski, gave Mitchell’s investigators copies of checks he said were from Lo Duca, each in the amount of $3,200. Radomski [...]

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Despite issues Olympic rush on

With the countdown to the first Olympics in China now less than six months, issues that previously simmered are coming to a boil. None of the controversy is cooling demand among athletes, sponsors and spectators for arguably the most anticipated Summer Games in 112-year modern Olympics history.
U.S. and international athletes - including what is projected [...]

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Pueblo edges Thunderbird for title

“Diego is the epitome of what every wrestler should be like. He’s just a great kid,” Independence wrestling coach Nick Nabor said of Bencomo.
“He’s a great student (3.5 GPA), and he works unbelievably hard. He’s always the first one to practice and the last one to leave. He stays extremely focused and he’s a great [...]

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After ugly winter spring training looms

“I don’t think it’s going to hurt. I think they’re still excited for baseball,” said Talbot, who started last season with six no-hit innings for Triple-A Durham.
Johan Santana, Dontrelle Willis, Dan Haren and Erik Bedard will be with new teams following big trades. When position players show [...]

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After ugly winter spring training looms

“I don’t think it’s going to hurt. I think they’re still excited for baseball,” said Talbot, who started last season with six no-hit innings for Triple-A Durham.
Johan Santana, Dontrelle Willis, Dan Haren and Erik Bedard will be with new teams following big trades. When position players show [...]

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How ethical is my daily cuppa?

To these ends I will raise a cup to the Ethical Tea Partnership (ethicalteapartnership.org), the initiative by the mainstream tea industry (which comprises a few multinationals; Unilever is the biggest). In a trial year (2006) the initiative ‘logged over 400 improvement actions’, including health and safety improvements, the unionisation of several plantations, and environmental schemes [...]

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Two Britons held in Delhi over illegal kidney transplant racket

After raiding a private hospital last week in Gurgaon, an upmarket suburb of Delhi, police found that poor labourers had had their kidneys removed, sometimes against their will, and sold to clients from around the world. Doctors charged 1.5m rupees (%26pound;18,750) for a kidney transplant while the donor was paid just about 40,000 rupees (%26pound;500).The [...]

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